Welcome home! Please contact lincoln@icrontic.com if you have any difficulty logging in or using the site. New registrations must be manually approved which may take several days. Can't log in? Try clearing your browser's cookies.
There are some similarities in the psychological models used by CBT and Buddhist meditation, but the actual practices are very different. The key idea in CBT is to talk one's self out of disturbing b… (View Post)
(Quote) Well, you need to try it for yourself and see. It takes a fair bit of mucking around and advice/assistance from more experienced people to get it right, but I know from experience that it's e… (View Post)
(Quote) The theory is, there is intention right up to the moment of awakening. In the moment of awakening, there is no intention. (Quote) No, but the practice does lead to a place where you're not at… (View Post)
When the founder of a religion explicitly says what the purpose of it is, it is reasonable to construe that as the purpose. When someone else says the purpose is something else and provides no eviden… (View Post)